Consultant · Trainer · Author
Done performing.
Ready to build.
Direct, systems-first consulting for CEOs and founders serious about scaling. Creator of The Operating Ecosystem 7 — the operating manual for a company architecturally designed to grow.
14,000+
CEOs & founders advised
24+
Years as a founder & operator
14,000+
CEOs & entrepreneurs advised
145+
Seminars led across the U.S.
2
Successful company exits
The work is real. So is the standard.
Not a theorist. A founder, operator, and advisor.
Aaron Keith has spent more than 24 years in the trenches of entrepreneurship — building, scaling, and selling companies across multiple industries. He has personally advised more than 14,000 CEOs and founders, from startups to celebrities to billion-dollar organizations.
His work sits at the intersection of operational systems, leadership psychology, and behavioral science. Direct, systems-first, and rooted in what actually works inside a growing company.
The Operating Ecosystem 7
Seven departments.
One operating system.
OE7 is Aaron's proprietary methodology for organizing and operating the seven core departments every scaling company must build — combining the mental game of business with the systems, structures, and performance disciplines that hold it in place.
Management
Leadership operating systems
Operations
Structure, process & SOPs
Finance
Profitability & architecture
Marketing
Consistent qualified demand
Sales
Process that converts
Production
Delivery & capacity
Quality Assurance
Standards that hold
“Systems hold mindset in place.”
Work with Aaron
Engagements built around where you are — and where you're going.
Not strategy decks. Not generic frameworks. Real work, inside your actual company. Every engagement begins with a grading assessment across all seven departments.
1-on-1 Consulting
6-month minimum · weekly · $2,400/mo
Aaron's most direct, comprehensive engagement. He works as a strategic partner inside your business across all seven departments — systems, leadership, and the real decisions that determine whether a company scales or stalls.
Inquire→Consulting Projects
Scoped to project · $650/hr
A specific challenge, initiative, or department built or rebuilt from the ground up. Scoped, focused engagements designed to produce a defined outcome — owned and operated by your team when it concludes.
Inquire→The Boardroom Seminar Series
Quarterly · Scottsdale · $1,800–$3,500
A private workshop for serious CEOs and operators. Each quarter a small, vetted group goes deep on one high-leverage topic. Not a lecture — you work on your business, in the room.
Inquire→Group Coaching
By request · 3–6 months · $1,200/person
A structured, multi-week program for organized groups who want to build together. Participants apply the frameworks to their own companies in real time, week over week.
Inquire→Sales Bootcamp
By request · 6 weeks · $1,200/person
An intensive program to rebuild or strengthen sales infrastructure, team performance, and leadership — fast. Built around the OE7 Sales framework and the Five Stages of Marketing & Sales.
Inquire→Finance Essentials
By request · 3 months · $1,200/person
The financial disciplines every CEO must own: reading statements, cash flow, profitability, and building toward both business and personal financial freedom.
Inquire→
The Boardroom Seminar Series
This is not a conference.
A private quarterly workshop for serious CEOs, founders, and operators in Scottsdale, Arizona. A small, vetted group goes deep on one high-leverage topic. No one will try to sell you anything in the room. You will work on your business — and when you leave, it will be different.
Quarterly
Four per year
Max 25
Approval-based
Scottsdale
In person
Hire Aaron to speak
The goal is never to impress the room. The goal is to change it.
Aaron doesn't stand at a podium and talk at your audience. He works the room — pulling real issues into the conversation, creating the kind of dialogue and breakthrough a lecture never can. Keynotes, workshops, and custom presentations, each built from scratch for your audience.
87%
of organizations that hire Aaron to speak rehire him to come back and do more.
Apply for a discovery call
Ready to build?
If you're a serious CEO or founder, the first step is a focused conversation. Aaron reviews every inquiry personally. Submitting an inquiry is not a commitment — it's a conversation.
Every inquiry is reviewed personally · Response within one business day